CVE-2025-49582

HIGH

Xwiki < 16.4.7 - Remote Code Execution

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

XWiki is a generic wiki platform. When editing content that contains "dangerous" macros like malicious script macros that were authored by a user with fewer rights, XWiki warns about the execution of these macros since XWiki 15.9RC1. These required rights analyzers that trigger these warnings are incomplete, allowing an attacker to hide malicious content. For most macros, the existing analyzers don't consider non-lowercase parameters. Further, most macro parameters that can contain XWiki syntax like titles of information boxes weren't analyzed at all. Similarly, the "source" parameters of the content and context macro weren't anylzed even though they could contain arbitrary XWiki syntax. In the worst case, this could allow a malicious to add malicious script macros including Groovy or Python macros to a page that are then executed after another user with programming righs edits the page, thus allowing remote code execution. The required rights analyzers have been made more robust and extended to cover those cases in XWiki 16.4.7, 16.10.3 and 17.0.0.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.0
EPSS 0.0131
EPSS Percentile 79.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-357
Status published
Products (6)
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-cache 15.9-rc-1 - 16.4.7Maven
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-context 15.9-rc-1 - 16.4.7Maven
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-rendering-xwiki 15.9-rc-1 - 16.4.7Maven
org.xwiki.platform/xwiki-platform-security-requiredrights-default 15.9-rc-1 - 16.4.7Maven
xwiki/xwiki 17.0.0 rc1
xwiki/xwiki 15.9 - 16.4.7
Published Jun 13, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026